Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1890 — Page 6

SANDERS AND POWERS.

THE TWO REPUBLICAN SENATORS FROM MONTANA. Exciting Episodes of Their Early Bays in the Far West—Proposed Transfer ot the Pension Office to the War Department— Other Washington Matters. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.] Washington, April 10, 1800. Col. W. B. Sanders, one of the Republican Senators from the State cf Montana, has been in Washington some weeks, and has already created for himself quite a reputation as a wide-awake Westerner and a most interesting story-teller. His seat in the highest legislative body in the world, as well as that of hiscolleague, Tom Powers, has been contested inch by inch by ex-Delegate McGinnis and Hon. W. A. Clark, who also claim the right to represent the great State. All four of the claimants are men of wealth, and every evening intimate friends of the quartette gather about their headquarters, and enjoy the bounteous hospitalities dispensed in the true Montana style. Twenty years ago Tom Powers had the reputation of being one of the most successful and energetic captains on the Missouri River, and commanded one of the handsomest steamboats that traversed that great stream. It is related of him that on one occasion he executed a most daring feat, saving the lives of many passengers and a largo cargo of government freight from the Indians. It was somewhere back in 1808 that the Ind'ans broke out all along the river from old Fort P erre all the wav up to Fort BeDton. The murderous savages butchered every white person they lay hands on. They were particularly troublesome along the banks of the Missouri, and woo be unto any steamboat th n attempted to navigate the stream. With foil knowledge of what might be in stoiefor him, Captain Tom loaded his boat at Yankton with Government provisions for Fort Benton, and with a number of passengers, to whom he had explained the situation, coolly pulled up the river. Everything wont smoothly enough until the fifth day, when a perfect fusillade of bullets poured into the boat from the willows and bush on the btnk of the r.ver. The terror-stricken pilot imagine 1 they were all aimed at him, and it is safe to say some of them were, as everv glass in the pilot house was shivered at the first fire. With a shriek the cowi.r.lly fellow fell flat on his face ! and in another moment the boat might have swung about and grounded on a sand-bar, but Captain Powers, realizing the dingers of the channel at this point, had instinctively rushed for the pilot-lfbuse at the first sign of danger, and just as the pilot dropped to the floor he sprang to the wheel, and with a steady hand kept the boat in its regular course. Bullets whistled through the air. splinters from the window pash flew all around him. The blood-curdling yells of the redskins could be heard only a hundred yards away, causing fearlul agony to the terrified passengeis below. The undaunted Captain, however, hung to the wheel w.th one hand and waved his hat nt the maddened savages with tbe pther. Without a scratch he ran the gantlet, and in due time arrived at his destination with cargo and pass.ngers safe cni sound. Nor was the Captain any the loser from damages by bullets either. He invited his passengers into a game of poker the night of the attack and won enough to repair his pilot-house. They had not yet recovered their nerve, so that, although with full kuowleige of the steamboat man's penchant for bluffing, his bob-tail flushes almost invariably got away with the pot. His winnings repaired the damages to his boat.

A most remarkable man for a Senator is will-be-when-they-let-him-in Sanders, the partner in trouble of Powers. His adventures, particularly while leader of tbe viiilantos in Montana, are of the most sensational dime-novel chtractor. His' •experiences date away back to lhfil, when Andrew Johnson was a member of tho Senate and the Southern men had withdrawn from Congress. Sanders at tb at time was a law partner of Charles F. Mander<son, present Senator from Nebraska, and lived at Canton, Ohio. They were both in Washington, and were in the Senate gallery listening to the exciting debates. There was so much noise that Charles Sumner, who was speaking, demanded that the galleries be cleaied. The two partners went out with the rest, but Sanders, beiag anxious to hear what was going on, coolly walked around to the mam door of the Senate floor, and with great nonchalance announced to the doorkeeper that he was a “Senator of the Southern Confeleracy, and as such entitled to the privile.e* of the flooi.” The doorkeeper was dumbstruck, and before he could recover Sanders walked in. Later, when the galleries were reopened, Manderson took his old seat and looked down on his partner comfortably lolling on a lounge takiDg in the interesting proceedings. The experiences of Sanders for the past twenty years in Monta ra are household tales all over the Western country. They are such as few men have gone through and lived to relate in the draw-ing-rooms of Washington official life. As leader of the famous vigilantes of Montana, Sanders can look back on some exciting scenes. On one occasion, however, the Senator-expectant figured rather conspicuously in a successful effort to save a notorious criminal from the hands of fierce and revengeful vigilantes. A. well known horsethief was wanted badly at Helena, and had been located at a town some distance away. The authorities knew that the, instant the news spread of the capture of so notorious an outlaw the vigiiantes would be up and after him. and nothing on earth could save him. It was particularly important that the man should be brought to Helena alive. His death for various reasons would be a calamity to justice. Sanders, who wns acting in the capacity of United States Marshal, undertook the difficult task of bringing the horsethief to Helena alive. The latter had secured the reputation of being a most desperate character and hard to handle. So Marshal Sanders not only assumed the responsible job of capturing and hanging -on to the desperado, but outwitting the vigilantes as well. He found his man in a variety theater, and, walking up within five or six feet, tossed him a pair of handcuffs and instantly covered him with e pair of pistols. "Put those on, please," cowmen led the Marshal.

i The thief started back in astonishment ; and made a movement to go for his | weapons. “Put those on and hurry up about it. I’m looking right at ye," and ihe officer was looking stra ght at him through the eight; of his ugly looking six-sbooters. The man obeyed, bnt tbe looks of the crowd aronnd kind of troubled the MarsLal, so he walked over to the prisoner, took him by the arm with one hand and holding his six-shooter in the other, turned to the crowd and said: “Gentlemen, this man is wanted in Helena for hoss-stealin’ and I’m here after him, and, however much it may inconvenience him to make the trip at this hour of the night, he must go, and I’ve got lots of help outside, so none of you had better interfere. Besides, the vigilantes are after him and I saw ’em bayin' a rope up town a few minutes ago.” With this significant shot he led his, man outside and into his back-board which he had brought from Helena, and after patting irons on his feet started for home. All went well until about daylight, thirty-five miles from Helena, when, just as he crossed a bridge over one of the streams, a gang of mounted and masked men sprang up and surrounded the Marshal and his prisoner. In another minute the officer was tumbled unceremoniously out of the vehicle nnd the prisoner being dragged to the bridge upon which they proposed to hang him. Sanders struggled to his feet, although still in the grasp of a couple of stalwart vigilantes, aud yelled: “Hold oa, boy; you know me; I’m Sanders, of Helena; I’ve been with ye many a time. Say, jou chaps are making a mistake. That fellow you’ve got is no common horsethief. He’s a bank cashier from St. Paul, and got away with a hundred thousand good old dollars, and he's got ’em hid down here at Helena. There’s a reward for him, and I’m broke and need the money darn hard, so let up on him and I’ll make it all right. Of course jou gentlemen know I wouldn’t kick if he was a hoss-thief.”

“All right, Colonel,” returned one .of (he masked men; “take the skunk along; but it’s a darn good thing he ain’t a hossthief or we’d a rope 1 him, you bet.” So they “yanked” him back into the buck-board, and with a “so-long, tolonel,” rode away, and Sanders look him into Helena. Some of the very men who put Sanders up to going alter the thief were the ones who gaie information to the vigilantes, but none of them happened to be in the gang to dispute the bluff made by Sanders, and their astonishment whs intense when he rode in about noon with this prisoner. Gen. Spinola, representing one of the most populous of the New York City Congressional districts, is a hard man to tackle in a debate. Habitues of the House galleries take keen delight in listening to his sharp, sarcastic and witty five-minute speeches. Congressman Kerr, of lowa, ran against him the other day in the debate over the “canteen system in the army, ” and he is now trying to discover which the General most resembles, a buzz-saw or a cyclone—and Kerr is no infant in an off-hand debate himself. While Kerr hss a faculty of propounding troublesome questions. Spinola has a faculty of answering them in the most caustic and aggravating way. W

Tnere is a growing suspicion that the lar est number of members of the prestnt Congress look upon the civil-service law in anything but a favorable light. Be this as it may, a test of its popularity among the members will be made when the estimates for additional forces to carry the law into effect come up for consideration. The commission wants an extra appropriation of $37,000, and the enemies of civil-service reform intend to make a fight on it. There will unquestionably be a tight also on the regular appropriation. * * * A belief prevails in legislative circles that the . lecommendation of Secretary Proctor in favor of transferring the pension office fiom the Interior to the Wax Department should prevaiL The proposition has been discussed in somewhat different form several times during the past few years. It is well known that the proofs relating to the records of soldiers and pension claimants are furnished by the War Department. It i.s proposed by combining the Pension Bureau and War Department to curtail the expense of a douole force, and draw upon the large force of army officers mow in the employ of the War Department, and subject to the call of the Secretary War, for aid in carrying o%the pension business The young lie tenants who heretofore have had nothing to do but cultivate their social qualities of course will object to being put to work. If this project is carried out the pension force will be doubled at no extra cost to tbe government and operate to the advantage the youDger branch of the army, which at present occupies much the same pos.t on to the government as apiece of statuary in our lady’s parlor. " *

* ik The discussion over the bill for the admission of Wyoming, wfhich passed the House last week, Ssasetued an astonishingly large number of Congressmen who have a leaning toward woman suffrage. An amendment to the bill striking out the suffrage clause in the Constitution adopted by Wyoming last summer was defeated by a handsome majority, and number forty-three will come into the Union with a provision in her organio act giving equal rights to male and female. * * * The resolution of Senator Yoorhees, of Indiana, relating to tbe financial depression among the farmers, is destined to become the bugbear of the Senate before the close of the session. The Senator has taken up tho cause of the granger, as well as a number of other Senators, and they propose to follow up the question to the bitter end. Indeed, the farming element is receiving much attention at the hands of Congress this year, but whether beneficial legislation is to take place remains to be seen. All factions unite in the opinion that something mast be done, but the split occurs on the ways and means. s ' Jas. C. Moody. I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Thebe will always remain something to be said of a woman, as long •s there it one on earth. —Boujfflers.

CYCLONE IN KENTUCKY.

FULL REPORTS FROM THE SCENE OW THE HORROR. A Hundred Lives Lost in Louisville—Progress ot the Devastating; Storm Through Illinois and Indiana—Destruction in Other Places. Louisville (Ky.) dispatch: The yellow floods of tbe Ohio, lapping the tops of the highest levees and threatening death and destruction to the towns alonß tho river banks, met a greater horror than any to which it had ever given bir.th as it rolled on Us way to the Mississippi. In the rushing of a mighty wind a giant of the air, leaving wreck and ruin on the prairies of southern Illinois, swept up the swollen stream, and in less than three hours wrought damage which months of work can not repair, and slew scores, perhaps hundred’s of human beings. In Louisville alone at least one hundred lives were lost and meager reports or still more ominous silence indicates an awful loss of life in other towns. Whole villages are said to have been leveled to the ground; and there is reason to believe that when news from these stricken hamlets comes to the public the death-list will reach appalling proportions. First reports led to the conclusion that the cyclone which laid so much of Louisville in ruin's and the wind storm which tore its way across Illinois were not the same, and it is difficult now to explain the wide area of country visited. A general storm raged over most of that part of tne United States between the Missouri river and the Alleghanies and north of the Ohio Thursday evening, and it is probable that there were several cyclones, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

The well-known eccentric movements of cyclones would account for the wide distance between the points affected in southern Illinois and along the Ohio river, and it seems likely that the cyclone which struck Louisville and the one which a few hours earlier had whirled over the southern part of Illinois were identical. Falling upon the country a few miles east of the Mississippi between Cairo and St. Louis, it rose again into the air whence it came somewhere east of Louisville. Between these two points its course is only two plainly marked and its continuous progress established. Special dispatches show that tbe cyclone was first felt at Nashville, Carbondale, and Murphysboro, three towns lying in a line almost north and south. The extreme distance between these towns is about forty-five miles. Tearing its way across the State to Olney, not far from the lndiana Mine, it seems to have turned southward, for it was felt at Evansville,. Ind'. In the meantime, Metropolis, 1'11.,, on the Ohio river, had been half wrecked, one-person billed and several injured l , and 1 $250,000 worth of property destroyed. Up l tho Ohio the cyclone raced and, crossing into Kentucky, laid the country in ruins., Tho board of trade of Louisville hasmade a canvass of the ruined district and the estimate of one hundred' person® killed is obtained from the return®. Other estimates place the loss of life much higher, and it is not improbable that the story told by the ruin® will bear them out. The board has gone to work with a splendid courage that will command l theadmiration of the whole country to relieve the needy and repair the terrible ruin the # city has suffered. It sends out a statement that the los® will not exceed $2,000,000, and say® that though the calamitv is a great one the residents of the city feel able to cope with it unaided. That aid' will be furnished if needed or desired is evident from the ready proffers from' neighboring States and cities. It is likely that this generous assistance will be required by the smaller towns andvillages, in which the people will be less able to face tho disaster which has over'taken them.

THE STATE OF TRADE.

Business In the South Affected by the Floods and Storms. New York dispatch: Eradsfcrcet’s“State of Trade savs: Another rise in tho Ohio andt Mississippi rivers continues to Keep large tracts of country under water and thus toobstruct trade. The disastrous-storm Thursday night, notably afi Louisville' and elsewhere in the central western states, can hardly fail to. intensify the unfavorable conditions-already existing. Exports of wheat continue to decline on the Pacific coast.. The total shipments of wheat, and 1 flour as wheat, from both coasts this- week, amount to 2,401.156 bushels, against 1,800,390 bushels last week. In. the corresponding week a year ago they were 1.741,944 bushels. The total frown July 1 to date is 79,693,779 bushels, against 67,922,250 bushels in the like-share of 1888 and 1889. The decreas® of available stocks of wheat east of tho Rockies was 1,031,000 bushels last week, against 800,000 bushels in the preceding week. There is no improvement in pig-iron aud only a slightly better domand for steel rails. The number of men involved in strikes and lockouts in the United States this year is slightly less than in the like quarter of 1889. Dry goods are fairly aetive with jobbers’ drives in cotton dress goods being the feature. Agents report trade moderate. Printcloths, prints and low-grade bleached and brown cottons are weak, the decline In prints being nearly h, per cent owing to larger stocks. The woolen goods de* mand, especially for men’s wear, 13 rather quiet, while prices are steady. Low and medium grades of wool are firmer but not in better domand. Tho manufacturing outlook is not encouraging. The business failures reported number 189 in the United States, against 200 last week and 161 for tho same week last year. The total nutnbor of failures in the United States since Jan. 1 is 3,358, •gainst 3.546 In 1889.

BAD FOR THE FARMERS.

DI&COUBAGING CROP REPORTS FROM THE NORTHWEST. Correspondents in Many Places Report Widespread Damage—The Percentage oi Condition Low in Illinoig, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri—Kansas Holds Her Own. The following will appear In the next issue of the Farmers’ Review of Chicago: “Outside of Kansas the reports from our crop correspondents relative to the condition of winter wheat are very discouraging. Particularly is this true of Illinois and Indiana, where the average for the State will fall almost as low as that of Wisconsin. But six counties in Illinois out of the entire report for that State—viz., Carroll, Clay, Henderson, Kankakee, Lee, and Peoria—estimate the present condition of winter wheat 100 per cent. In all other counties the reports of damage range from 10 to 60 per cent, two counties, Edgar and Randolph. placing the injury at the latter high figure. It is safe to say that the average condition qf wheat in this State outside the favored counties mentioned above is from 30 to 40 per qent below the usual average at this season. “The same state of affairs prevails in Indiana, but seven counties —viz., Martin, Washington. Brown, Elkhart, Greene, Jasper and La Grange—reporting ‘condition good.’ The per cent of damage is the same, three correspondents estimating tho injury at 60 per cent, many others reporting 40 and 50 per cent. The bottom lands in Floyd county have been twice overflowed and are now under water.

“Our Ohio reports make a better average, but show a great decline in the last few weeks. Adams, Ashtabula, Athens, Butler, Columbiana, Erie, Guernsey, Huron, Jackson, Noble, Portage, Ross, Trumbull, and Tascarawas counties report condition 100 per cent or over. In all other counties from which we have reports the damage will range from 10 to 40 per cent, the average of injury being about 20 per cent. “Kentucky reports show a falling off of about 12 per cent on the general average for the State since our last report. Wheat fields in many counties are still uninjured and in promising condition, but the loss in other counties has been severe. “The average for Missouri runs about per cent lower than at the date of our last report, although there are many counties in which the condition is said to be good. “Kansas continues to hold her own bravely, the reports showing only a slight decline from the average last reported. Fifteen counties report injury from frost and dry cold winds ranging from 10 to 20 per cent, but in the majority of the counties heard from condition Is reported 100 per cent or over. “In Michigan ancii Wisconsin the condition of wheat has continued to decline'. But two counties in the last named) State. Dane and Earn Claire, report condition 100' per cent. Other counties have suffered' from' 10 to- 50 per cent. Chippewa, Portage, and Sheboygan countries are stiill covered with snow and Waushara county i® said to be ‘mostly under ice and' water.’ Barry is the- only county m Michigan iim which the wheat is said! t®> lien: good condition. Emmet and Grand! Traverse counties are as yet snow-eoveredl “We summarize the reports of correspondents relative- to condition- as follows; Illinois, 76 per cent;: Indiana, 76 per cemt; Ohioi. 88 per cent; Missouri, 84 per cent; Kentucky, 87 per cent; Kansas, '42 percent; Wisconsin, 72 per cent; Michigan,. 67 percent..”-

NATIONAL DEBT STATEMENT.

Outstanding Obligations of the <Se>vernment and Cash, on Hand. Washington, dispatch:: The following is- a 1 synopsis of the ■ government debt statement April 1: INTEREST'-BBARINU DEIOT.. Bonds at 414 per cent SUJ3iS4ff,OOO BOndk-afrkper-cent. ... 690,444.150 Refunding certificates a® 4i per cent aosjffl) Navy pension fund at 3 per cen.fr 14,000’,000 Pacific railroad) bonds- at 6 per. cent I 64.623,512 Principal $802422,532 Interest 8*904,025 ’DOfra.l; $811,023,557 TOTAL DEBT. Principal., ...$1,50®.8Q&480 Interest 90364,064 Ttotal $14«X562,544 Hess, cash Items- available for reduction] of diebt .....$444,089),030 JLass reserve- heW for redemption; ©£' 1L S. •nates 100,000,003 Total d’ebfr less available cash items. $1,035,773,514 Net cash iim the treasury. 32,615,842 Debt less cash in the treasury April 1, 1890 ....$1,023,157,072 Debt less cash in the treasury March 1. 1800 1,034,547,529 Decrease of debt during month....? 11,389,857 Decrease of debt since Jan. 30.1889 53,488.949 CASH IX THE TREASURY" AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold securities actually outstanding $ 134,938,079 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 290,605,362 United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,660.000 Cash held for matured debt and Interest unpaid 10,885,170 Fractional currency 219 Total available for reduction of the debt $ 454,089,030 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of United States notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12.1882 $ 100.000,000 UNAVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE DEBT Fractional silver coin.? 22,814,564 Minor coin 233,254 Total $ 23,047,818 •Certificates held as cash 29.012.101 Net cash balance on hand 32.615,842 Total cash in the treasury as shown by treasurer’s general account , 8 628,764,791

THE LITTLE FOLKS.

Jerry. 0 ‘‘Buy a paper, plaze! She is frozen a'moat, Here’s Commercial, and News, and Mail, And here’s the Express and the Averring Post, And ivery one has a tirrible tale— A shipwreck —a morther—a fire alarm—•yhichiver ye loike—have a paper, ma'am ? auin buy it. plaze, as this bit as a gurrul. hhe’s new in the business, and all av a whirrul; We must lind her a hand,” said little Jerry “There's a pHnty av trade at the Fulton Ferry. “She’s wakely for nadeav the tay and the toast, ihe price av a paper—plaze. sir, buy a Post? true as me name is Jeremiah, There’s a foine report av a drfdful fire, And a child that’s lost, and a smash av a train; lndade, sir the paper’s just groanin' wid pain; up little gurrul. and don t be afraid, i-JP acreechin’ fo' two till I start yez in thrade, While I veil you can sell.’ said little Jerrv Screeching for two at Fulton-Ferry. Tne night was bleak, tbe wind was high, And a hurrying crowd went shivering bv • Rn?£!f 5 £ b 0 L? pers ' bought none. Bat the boy’s shrill voice rang cheerily on ; B T bum I *’ ° r a New8 ’ or a Mail, as you * ch ® 9 wid -weight av the news. Express, hot a single one left for to-night; But buy one av this little gurrul, sir,-all right. She s a reglar seller here at the ferry 8 And I reckommend her high,” said Jerry, Ti’kh’l' °f the-throtigg there passed a man, n The bell is- ringing, I cannot wait; “ vvf’ i rl '. ai - Commercial, as quick as you cant ihe boat is starting—don’t make me late.” And on through the hurrying crowd he ran, Ihe wee girl following close behind the P enn y he could not find ; While with a spring through the dosing gate,-. After her money bounded Jerry,. Ragged and panting, at Pulton t erry. One cent from the man in tfce-big. fur coat! Give me the change, or I’ll stop tho boat I” bp from the deck a laugh and a cheer, it changed to a shuddering cry of fear a,, ?u bont }. is hea<l for ’ha fearflil spring, And then —like a wild bird on the wing— Over the whirling waters-swung,. Touched the boat with his hands and clung, Gasping and white, to tbe rail, and cried, Where is that mean old man who tried lo steal one cent from a girl at the ferry— A poor little girl, with no friend but Jerry?” Over the side went a hundred hands,. -p?vn a J? nadred ‘months rang forth commands: Pull him ini “Slop the boat!” -Take his stock I “Lot us buy. All he has j* “Send Him home to get “No, indade,” said the boy, “that’s not w'at Imeant; y® r money; ,1 want that on©-cent. Fiom the rnau in the warr’rn fur coat an' hat, Vi ho could shteal a cent from a gurrul dike that. As iver he tries that game agin, He d bettor take me and not Margery Flyun t" Then cheer on cheer for little Jerry, across the Fulton Ferry. Long ago, my youthful readers, Happened ibis that 1 have told; Long ago that sturdy newsboy All his daily papers sold. And the pluck that dared a ducking. To set right n. weak one's wrong, Served him well in every struggle.’ And his life, both kina aud strong, Is a'blessing and a comfort To a world of needy boys. Dk® him. must work in rlaytime With boot-brushes for their toys But around the Pulton Ferry Still the newsboys talk of Jerry.

A Rear Guard. Little Jimmy Botts brought home apeeled nose and a garter snake from a picnic the other day. and hid (he latter inside the piano. When his sister’s oung man put up the lid that evening to perpetrate “Where Did You Get lhat Hat?” he thought he had ’em agaiu, and yelled like a pirate chasing a stage coach in ahead of time. Jimmy failed to prove an alibi, and his father said he would reason with him in the wood-shed after supper. When the family sat down to the table Jimmy solemnly entered in his stocking feet and carrying a pillow, upon which he carefully sat down. “What new monkey-shine is this?” grow led old Bptts. "S-s-s-li, papa, ’ whispered Jimmy, “I was playing tire-works with Tommy MeGlue this afternoon, and I swallowed a torpedo.” “Did, eh?” “Aes; and if anything should touch) me kinder sudden, I might go off and. be tored all to pieces. ” And the snake indemnity bill was laid on the table.— Puck. Gum. “I hope you will never want to chew gum, Angelina. , I should hate to see a, dolly of mine ch|wing gum.. You will never catch me* doing such a foolish, thing.

“Of course I did use to,, but that was nearly a whole week ago. “I know plenty of little girls—and boys, too—that chew gum every day right on the streets, and! it does not look pretty, Angelina. If you could talk you would say so yourself, “And I know just a few little girls — • and boy 3, too —that take their gum with ’em whan they gp. to. church. Isn’t that too bad,? “And the-other niglbkl went to our school concert—l would, have sung in, it only I had a coldl when they were practicing—and. thene was. little Laura Bascom that bad) such pretty curls and big brown, eyes,. What do. you s’po~e she did;? “Why, she- kept, liter gum in her mouth all the-toime-ina tliae grand chorus,, and chewodi lit some, at the end of every line. Now, Angelina, wasn’t that perfectly shocking: 1 “But I know another little girl that did pretty near as bad ’bout a week ago. “ She- Sorgot and laid her gum right on the what-not, near some sea-shells and pretty stones. “And there was company that day, and a nice old gentleman was looking at the stones, and he picked it up and said: ‘Bless me! what sort of stone is this?’ and looked at the little girl just as hard as he could. “And her face wa3 hot as lire, and she just said, so you could hardly hear her, ‘That’s my gum.’ “Aud then she just aan away to her own bed-room, and didn’t even go down to tea. “No, Angelina, I’d rather not tell you her name. But you’ll never see me chewing gum any more,”- Youth’s Companion. ~ , Gathercole is the name of 0.. c ol Pennsylvania’s coal baroaa. ,